NAME

       pmiPutValue - add a value for a metric-instance pair

C SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcp/pmapi.h>
       #include <pcp/import.h>

       int pmiPutValue(const char *name, const char *instance, const char *value);

       cc ... -lpcp_import -lpcp

Perl SYNOPSIS

       use PCP::LogImport;

       pmiPutValue($name, $instance, $value);

DESCRIPTION

       As part of the Performance Co-Pilot Log Import API (see LOGIMPORT(3)), pmiPutValue adds a single value to
       the current output record for a given metric and instance.

       The metric's name should match one defined earlier in a call to pmiAddMetric(3).

       For  singular  metrics  (those  defined with an instance domain of PM_INDOM_NULL), the instance should be
       NULL or an empty string, otherwise instance should match the name of an instance  defined  earlier  in  a
       call to pmiAddInstance(3) for the metric's instance domain.

       The  value  should  be in a format consistent with the metric's type as defined in the call to pmiAddMet‐
       ric(3).

       No data will be written until pmiWrite(3) is called, so multiple calls to pmiPutValue or  pmiPutValueHan‐
       dle(3) are typically used to accumulate data values for several metric-instance pairs before calling pmi‐
       Write(3).

DIAGNOSTICS

       pmiPutValue  returns  zero  on  success else a negative value that can be turned into an error message by
       calling pmiErrStr(3).

SEE ALSO

       LOGIMPORT(3), pmiAddInstance(3), pmiAddMetric(3),  pmiErrStr(3),  pmiPutResult(3),  pmiPutValueHandle(3),
       pmiPutText(3), pmiPutLabel(3) and pmiWrite(3).

Performance Co-Pilot                                                                              PMIPUTVALUE(3)